Snowflake..new Word

[fender62]

offended on other peoples behalf, stifled debate..sad
www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-5348993/Snowflakes-Theyre-todays-fascists.html

[RobNorth]

Every snowflake contains a piece of grit, sometimes black but in our case it's usually from the Sahara so it's brown-ish.

[Kromovaracun]

The article has plenty of valid criticisms, but the people he's describing have a lot more in common with Victorian-era architects of moral panic than they do with fascists. C20 fascists believed that they were participants in a struggle to define Western civilization which operated along the lines of "survival of the fittest." I don't think lefty students who ask for trigger warnings are quite so millenarian. In particular, the fuss over how depictions of women encourage "rape culture" (i.e. influence men to view women as inferior and entitled to their bodies) has a lot more in common with the Victorian obsession with rational recreation and a vague concept of "decency" than it does with fascists.

[Peter Pedant]

comes from the sahara and speaks arabic to you
sounds like terroristen to me !

from the article - the University of Barf - west of England comes out better - supporting free speech

[Peter Pedant]

// lot more in common with Victorian-era architects of moral panic //

which is still with us - didnt someone put a blanket over a picture of some ladies with big boobies last week to spare blushes etc ?

[hereIam]

Some cheeky old git on here once called me a snowflake, but I had no idea what it meant and still don't as I can't be bothered reading the link. Modern made up words for insults like this leave me cold and the people who use them are quite sad in my view.

[Mamyalynne]

A lack of independent thought, needing a menu of handy words to throw in on a whim.